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Parents' math-gender stereotypes, children's self-perception of ability, and children's appraisal of parents' evaluations in 6-year-olds
Mara CadinuAlberto MirisolaCarlo TomasettoSilvia Galdisubject
Primary schoolGender stereotypesParents' stereotype3304educationSelf-conceptGender stereotypeParents' stereotypesSelf perceptionbehavioral disciplines and activitiesEducationDevelopmental psychologymental disordersDevelopmental and Educational PsychologyReflected appraisalSelf-conceptProjected appraisalPsychologySelf-concept Primary school Gender stereotypes Parents’ stereotypes Projected appraisalGender stereotypes; Parents' stereotypes; Primary school; Projected appraisal; Self-concept; 3304; Developmental and Educational PsychologySocial psychologySettore M-PSI/05 - Psicologia Socialepsychological phenomena and processesdescription
Abstract This study investigated for the first time the relations between parents' math–gender stereotypes, parents' evaluations of children's math ability, children's math ability self-perception, and children's appraisal of parents' evaluations, addressing 253 Italian children as young as 6 years of age, their mothers, fathers, and teachers. Novel results revealed the specific role of mothers' math–gender stereotypes in relation to daughters, but not sons: Mothers' math–gender stereotypes predicted girls' math self-perception which, in turn, predicted girls' appraisal of both mothers' and fathers' evaluations of their ability. Importantly, children's appraisal of parents' evaluations was related more strongly with their own self-perception of ability than to parents' actual evaluations, thus supporting the projected appraisal versus the reflected appraisal model of the development of self-perception.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-07-01 |